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Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees
Socguy noted that Slate is apparently a little desperate for some traffic as they are writing about"Why so many of the terrorists have engineering degrees, and they come to the conclusion that engineers and engineering students are much more likely to hold strong conservative and religious views than a general cross section of the public. Further, engineers tend to hold a particular mind-set that disdains ambiguity and compromise. Terrorist organizations have long recognized that engineering departments are fertile ground for recruitment and have concentrated their efforts there. A 2005 report from British intelligence noted that Islamic extremists were frequenting college campuses, looking for 'inquisitive' students who might be susceptible to their message. In particular, the report noted, they targeted engineers."
Don't worry. It'll be downmodded into oblivion and no one will be the wiser.
most of the journos already support them
While I would *never* portray slavery as something agreeable, I'd say the way the Americans practiced it back then was still better than the way women are treated in extremist countries like Iran.
A good education is a bit like a STD - it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and gives you a desire to spread it.
The first thing you should know, oh brave Armchair Warrior, is that no good battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Yeah, you can come up with plans that are FAR more whatever-the-fuck, but when you go to put them into play you'll probably end up looking like even more of a goof than the UndieBomber. Despite what Hollywood may have lead you to believe, the real world has a tendency to be somewhat unpredictable. As for the marital-law bit, that's almost as silly as all the horror stories people were making up about the patriot act.
But they'd also need to be people who were grounded in Islam and hopefully susceptible to a more fundamentalist point of view.
The problem is that Islam, like Christianity, is a peaceful religion. Like Christianity's abortion bombers and people who shoot abortion doctors, some Muslims aren't really grounded in the teachings of the religion they think they adhere to.
It's not really about religion. Religion is used as a tool by the non-religious (usually "fundamentalists" in Christianity, at least) to control the religious. Ever watch those "Christian" preachers in the five thousand dollar suits preaching right wing politics instead of what Jesus taught? The preachers with the shaven faces* who comdemn homosexuals, for instance?
I'm sure Islam has its share of these wolves in sheep's clothing as well.
* The Christian/Hebrew/Islamic bible (what Christians call the "Old Testament") says that it's a sin for a man to make himself look like a woman. Facial hair is a secondary sexual characteristic, and removing it certainly is "making yourself look like a woman". Shaving is a sin, and clean shaven preachers who condemn homosexuals are hypocrites.
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